Captain Ahab, woman, cries out, “From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.” First mate Starbuck replies, “You’re being super emotional about this whale. Maybe wait before making any decisions?"

Captain Ahab, Woman

Captain Ahab, woman, cries out, “From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.” First mate Starbuck repl...

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Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

"Select a house with one fewer master suite than the number of couples. Don’t forget to unfairly resent the couple who didn’t get an ensuite bathroom because their stuff is all over the powder room, and, honestly, it’s annoying."

How to Ensure Your Annual Beach Vacation Destroys Your Relationship with Your Extended Family

“Select a house with one fewer master suite than the number of couples. Don’t forget to unfairly resent the couple who didn’t get an ensuite bathroom because...

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It's good to see an article that captures the plight of PIs like me.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3w ago

"I just can’t keep reminding you to do things I haven’t told you about. I don’t know how many warnings I’ve given you now. How many have there been? You should be keeping track of this. This is the problem right here. Why aren’t you anticipating?"

OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...

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Just posted 3 comments, about 3 different sections of this rule. Aside from the sufs resources, I found the @sfn.org webpage very helpful: www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 4w ago

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

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A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/w...

A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy.

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When there are summer interns in the lab, I often think more about the ambitions of people earlier in the academic science pathway. It often triggers these considerations. From the Archive: In which BikeMonkey discusses "ambition". drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/i...

In which BikeMonkey discusses “ambition”.

I was going to reply to the DM’s query on “ambition” in science careers (motivated by FSP here, followups here and here) in a comment but it got a bit lengthy. So, I present my am…

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Ok, so it seems my entire job will be usurped by ai yesterday. But I still can't find software that consistently knows the difference between a bl6 mouse and a smudgy shadow. I feel like these two things shouldn't coexist.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed. The effects for researchers will be as disruptive as industrial mass production was for artisan manufacturers, writes @kenneth-harris.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

The comment period on the proposed OMB rule closes July 13. Your input can help protect merit-based science funding. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates and submit a comment today: vist.ly/59mbt #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

Q: Are there any downsides to this new technology? A: Let’s recall that the printing press had its naysayers, and yet global history since 1500 has been characterized by uninterrupted progress and universal human betterment.

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration

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I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

My Peer Review of The 1%

I wanted to like QED's new 1% ranking. I don't.

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From the bond market to biomedical researchers NO ONE thinks Russell Vought's mad power-grab to take over all federal grant making is a wise idea. Write, call your members of Congress. Submit a comment on the rule. Write an oped. STOP THIS NONSENSE. www.bondbuyer.com/news/moodys-...

Moody's warns proposed political review of grants a credit negative

Hospitals, universities and transit agencies are among the issuers that would face heightened uncertainty around federal funding if the rule is enacted.

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Public health research at world-class institutions like the NIH is an important public good. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Lori Trahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.

Raskin moves to stop ‘disastrous’ threat against medical research

Rep. Jamie Raskin seeks to stop the Trump administration from putting political appointees in charge of federal health grants.

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I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..

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Stand up for Science

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WE ARE NEARLY AT 8,000 COMMENTS THROUGH THE @standupforscience.net OMB RULE PORTAL! We are at the half way point on this comment period. I think we can double it with ease. LEAR, WRITE, YELL: fight2win.standupforscience.net

#AI overriding journal editors' decisions? That's what @michael-okun.bsky.social resigned over from his position at a @frontiersin.bsky.social journal. My latest for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/e... @earlkmiller.bsky.social

Neuroscience journal editor resigns over automation concerns

The editor resigned after the journal’s AI system overrode his selection of referees for a manuscript. His move prompted an internal review of the system.

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Science peeps, particularly trainees: When reviewing grants, it really, really helps if you have a Google Scholar page, an ORCID account, or a website that makes getting information about you, easy. Some sort of web presence. I'm begging you. Make it easier for study sections to give you money.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

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Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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Some political person from HHS who clearly doesn’t know which way is up, is reviewing NIH grants and making absurd suggested changes. This is on top of a set of discriminatory changes required by NIH. www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: HHS is now weighing in on science in NIH grants

Staffers say comments coming after NIH’s own approvals are overriding peer review

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Biology for AP Courses exceeds College Board requirements. Scientific practice and AP test prep are built into every section. Free online and openly licensed from OpenStax! https://www2.openstax.org/org-blsk-general-life-sciences

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Thermo Fisher has responded to research integrity activists who spotted apparent manipulation in its antibody catalog: "In ... preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes." More: cen.acs.org/research-int...

I've been using the No AI version of DuckDuckGo and am impressed with the results. It seems to favor reliable sites and has a clean interface: noai.duckduckgo.com

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning